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| Author: | stogie [ Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Doo Wop popular where you are? |
I was watching a show Doo Wop Gold, on PBS and then I went to Youtube to flisten to some more, I just love this genre and time period. Some of my faves: Little Darlin, Maybe, Blue Moon Duke of Earl, Teen Angel, The Lion Speaks Tonight, heck I could go on forever, there's tons of great Doo Wop songs. Do they get sung where you are? |
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| Author: | DJ Swirl [ Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:52 pm ] |
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Not. At. All. |
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| Author: | Karen K [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:09 am ] |
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In 12 years, ONE singer, who was an ex professional. Such a shame, really, because it's great fun to do it. |
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| Author: | Lonman [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:31 am ] |
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DJ Swirl @ Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:52 am wrote: Not.
At. All. Same here, it's such a rarity if they do happen to get done that I can't even count the times. When I first started in the wee early 90's, Lion Sleeps Tonight was done often, Blue Moon & a couple others, but when Sound Choice started putting out more current stuff, those songs subsided quickly. |
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| Author: | mckyj57 [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:03 am ] |
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stogie @ Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:41 am wrote: I was watching a show Doo Wop Gold, on PBS and then I went to Youtube to flisten to some more, I just love this genre and time period. Some of my faves: Little Darlin, Maybe, Blue Moon Duke of Earl, Teen Angel, The Lion Speaks Tonight, heck I could go on forever, there's tons of great Doo Wop songs.
Do they get sung where you are? Nope. Not too many falsetto artists in the karaoke ranks. I have seen it twice in 3 years of intensive karaoke. A musical theater performer in Philadelphia, who is actually a bass in chest voice, has a great falsetto and did "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "Sherry". Then a guy in Homestead, Florida, who did a couple of numbers (can't remember exactly what they are, but they qualify). |
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| Author: | Bill H. [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:11 am ] |
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I actually had "Goodnight Sweetheart" sung in my room recently. That counts doesn't it? A regular singer's mom, who had never sang anything before, brought up the slip without the title - just the book number. I though she made a mistake, so I went over to their table and asked her what she really wanted to sing because the number she wrote was to "Goodnight Sweetheart". She replied "Yeah that's it!" She sang it well before closing to a full room and it did get some puzzled looks at first.... that "Huh?" expression that comes over the room when someone sings something totally out of the box. And this definitely qualified for that. |
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| Author: | Flipper [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:49 am ] |
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About 5 years ago I had a gig that catered to late 40's thru 70's age group and it was very popular. In fact I went out and purchase a 100 song Do-Wop set as a result. Occasionally I will get someone who will sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" but thats it. I sing "Goodnight Sweetheart" as the last song quite often and I always have folks that want to take a mic and join in. It's actually quite popular. On other nights I sing Frank Sinatra's "One For My Baby" (non-Do Wop) |
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| Author: | ericlater [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:01 am ] |
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Well, as I've noted before, I end my show with "Goodnight Sweetheart" as a sing along. And I am amazed at how many twenty year olds enthusiastically join in. A couple of shows in my area in S Fl regularly have people singing pure doo wop, and some related material. some examples of locally performed doo wop: You Belong to Me - Duprees This Magic Moment - Drifters or Jay & Americans Sh-Boom - Chords or Crew Cuts Under The Boardwalk - Drifters Tonight Could Be The Night - Velvets Why Don't You Believe Me - Duprees Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney It's Too Late - Carol King Who Put the Bomp - Barry Mann Stand By Me - Ben E King Stay - Maurice Williams Finding An Echo - Old55 |
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| Author: | seattledrizzle [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:31 am ] |
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I've heard a few of those listed sung, like The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Sherry, Under the Boardwalk and This Magic Moment. I've sung I Only Have Eyes for You by the Flamingos. Goodnight Sweetheart was also a group sing a long at one of the places I went to! |
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| Author: | ericlater [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:43 am ] |
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That Flamingo's song is great. Haven't heard in awhile, but it used to be done quite often. we do have a lot of locals who had been involved with music during the doo wop era, and some of them are just great in that regard |
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| Author: | mckyj57 [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:06 am ] |
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ericlater @ Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:01 am wrote: some examples of locally performed doo wop:
It's Too Late - Carol King That's doo wop? Then I have exactly no idea what it is, as most of those other numbers don't register with me either. Heck, I do "Up on the Roof", but I don't consider it to be doo wop. |
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| Author: | Karen K [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:23 am ] |
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One of the boy bands did a great doo-wop style version of one of their songs - wish I could remember what it was, but a couple of guys came in one night and did harmony along with the recorded backup harmony - it was great. (something about "too late to say goodbye" or something like that. CRS is bad today) I have an a capella S/C disc and it was on there. k |
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| Author: | ericlater [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:34 am ] |
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mcky I guess, even to many of us who were very much involved, what is actually "doo wop" is hard to "nail down". If pressed about it, I wouldn't include gene pitney or carol king. However, as with all music, doo wop "morphed" and there were tunes that were lumped into doowop that wouldn't have fit the earlier "mold" of the genre. IMHO, while "Tonight" by the Tokens is doo wop, in the strictest terms, the "Lion Sleeps Tonight" really isn't! Nonetheless, most everyone would consider the Tokens to be a doo wop group! For one, the original doo wop was sung by groups, in four-part harmony The bass line was commonly distinctive It was primarilly R&B in nature PS: Anything by the Drifters is considered doo wop by most everyone! |
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| Author: | seattledrizzle [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:24 am ] |
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Daddy's Home by Shep and the Limelights gets covered a bit also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QirZBmPR46o How about Memories Are Made of This by Dean Martin? Would that be Doo Wop? Doo Wop Lite? Hmmm.... |
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| Author: | Bill H. [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:56 pm ] |
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"Memories Are Made Of This" always struck me as being more like Belafonte/Calypso lite. Very lite. |
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| Author: | Flipper [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:13 pm ] |
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This is the Doo Wop set I have: Number of tracks: 90 Track Song In The Style Of Disc 1 / Track 1 Only You The Platters Disc 1 / Track 2 Why Don't You Believe Me The Duprees Disc 1 / Track 3 I Believe The Earls Disc 1 / Track 4 Speedo Cadillacs Disc 1 / Track 5 Sincerely The Moonglows Disc 1 / Track 6 I'm On The Outside Looking In Little Anthony and The Imperials Disc 1 / Track 7 Look In My Eyes Chantels Disc 1 / Track 8 Tonight Could Be The Night Velvets Disc 1 / Track 9 Story Untold Nutmegs Disc 1 / Track 10 You've Really Got A Hold On Me Smokey Robinson and The Miracles Disc 1 / Track 11 Oh Girl Chi-Lites Disc 1 / Track 12 Chapel Of Love Dixie Cups Disc 1 / Track 13 Little Star The Elegants Disc 1 / Track 14 Stay In My Corner The Dells Disc 1 / Track 15 A Little Bit Of Soap The Jarmels Disc 1 / Track 16 I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) Otis Redding Disc 1 / Track 17 Sorry, I Ran All The Way Home The Impalas Disc 1 / Track 18 You Cheated You Lied Shields Disc 2 / Track 1 Just To Be With You Passions Disc 2 / Track 2 Ten Commandments Of Love The Moonglows Disc 2 / Track 3 Hurt So Bad Little Anthony & The Imperials Disc 2 / Track 4 Torn Between Two Lovers Mary McGregor Disc 2 / Track 5 Once In A While The Chimes Disc 2 / Track 6 You're So Fine The Falcons Disc 2 / Track 7 Till Then The Classics Disc 2 / Track 8 Happy Happy Birthday Baby Tune Weavers Disc 2 / Track 9 Gloria Cadillacs Disc 2 / Track 10 Come Go With Me Del Vikings Disc 2 / Track 11 Coney Island Baby Excellents Disc 2 / Track 12 Maybe Chantels Disc 2 / Track 13 Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight Disc 2 / Track 14 Little Girl Of Mine Cleftones Disc 2 / Track 15 Hushabye The Cascades Disc 2 / Track 16 Sixteen Candles The Crests Disc 2 / Track 17 Letter, The Box Box Tops Disc 2 / Track 18 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes The Platters Disc 3 / Track 1 You're A Thousand Miles Away Five Heartbeats Disc 3 / Track 2 My Own True Love The Duprees Disc 3 / Track 3 Don't Mess With Bill Mary Wells Disc 3 / Track 4 Going Out Of My Head Over You Little Anthony & The Imperials Disc 3 / Track 5 My Prayer The Platters Disc 3 / Track 6 Ya Ya Lee Dorsey Disc 3 / Track 7 Let It Be Me Jerry Butler Disc 3 / Track 8 Mashed Potato Time Dee Dee Sharp Disc 3 / Track 9 Who's That Knockin' Genies Disc 3 / Track 10 Tonight I Fell In Love The Tokens Disc 3 / Track 11 Love Potion #9 The Searchers Disc 3 / Track 12 Image Of A Girl Safaris Disc 3 / Track 13 Silhouettes The Rays Disc 3 / Track 14 Party Lights Claudina Clark Disc 3 / Track 15 Please Let Me Love You Paragons / Jesters Disc 3 / Track 16 Break Up To Make Up The Stylistics Disc 3 / Track 17 Devil Or Angel The Clovers Disc 3 / Track 18 Sunday Kind Of Love (Slow Version) The Harptones Disc 4 / Track 1 We Belong Together Robert and Johnny Disc 4 / Track 2 Today I Met The Boy I'm Going To Marry Darlene Love Disc 4 / Track 3 Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers Disc 4 / Track 4 The Angels Listened In The Crests Disc 4 / Track 5 Pledging My Love Johnny Ace Disc 4 / Track 6 The Great Pretender The Platters Disc 4 / Track 7 Step By Step The Crests Disc 4 / Track 8 Teardrops Lee Andrews / Hearts Disc 4 / Track 9 Once Upon A Time Rochelle feat Candels Disc 4 / Track 10 So Much In Love Tymes Disc 4 / Track 11 When We Get Married The Dreamlovers Disc 4 / Track 12 Long Lonely Nights Lee Andrews / Hearts Disc 4 / Track 13 Rama Lama Ding Dong The Edsels Disc 4 / Track 14 He Will Break Your Heart Jerry Butler Disc 4 / Track 15 Da Doo Ron Ron The Crystals Disc 4 / Track 16 Tower Of Strength Gene McDaniels Disc 4 / Track 17 Remember Walking In The Sand The Shangri-Las Disc 4 / Track 18 A Million To One Jimmy Charles Disc 5 / Track 1 Life Is But A Dream (Slow Version) The Harptones Disc 5 / Track 2 I Count The Tears The Drifters Disc 5 / Track 3 Over The Mountain Across The Sea Johnnie and Joe Disc 5 / Track 4 Give Him A Great Big Kiss The Shangri-Las Disc 5 / Track 5 Goodnight Sweetheart The Spaniels Disc 5 / Track 6 My True Story Jive Five Disc 5 / Track 7 Lavender Blue Sammy Turner Disc 5 / Track 8 Make It Easy On Yourself Jerry Butler and The Impressions Disc 5 / Track 9 Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes) Carla Thomas Disc 5 / Track 10 Mr. Blue The Fleetwoods Disc 5 / Track 11 I Only Have Eyes For You The Flamingos Disc 5 / Track 12 Diamonds And Pearls The Paragons Disc 5 / Track 13 Hello Stranger Barbara Lewis Disc 5 / Track 14 Closer You Are Channels Disc 5 / Track 15 For Your Precious Love Jerry Butler Disc 5 / Track 16 You Got What It Takes Marv Johnson Disc 5 / Track 17 Along Came Jones The Coasters Disc 5 / Track 18 Save The Last Dance For Me The Drifters |
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| Author: | knightshow [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:36 pm ] |
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Pretty popular where I did it in Portland... always had a group of bikers come up and sing "My Girl" together... was a hoot. And yep, many of the songs listed here were sang! My only problem with "Lion Sleeps Tonight" is I always think of "The Lion King", and want to shout out "C'mon buddy, back me up!... Ummm, Poomba?" |
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| Author: | Babs [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:34 pm ] |
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Sure I here it all the time. Young and old sing it. I pretty much get all styles of music sung at karaoke though. |
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| Author: | karyoker [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Doo Wop popular where you are? |
While there are songs that were never done anyway except in Doowop style, it can be applied to any song in the book. We have applied it to country. I have done about 1/3 of the songs in the above list and many more in this list Some many times. My favorite and one of my siggies is Lost In The Fifties Tonight. An old friend of mine (a band member) sings Daddy's Home once in a while. When he does the entire bar comes to a complete standstill. At the end there is hardly a dry eye in the place and most of the time before the applause is over he has left. Here is a good history of it link All it takes is that slapback bass rhythm and 2 or 3 background singers sing the doo doo part. Yes Memmories Are Made of This can be doowop. The chorus singers are singing Sweet Sweet The Memries You Gava Me. Learning how to doowop improves singing skillls and gives you your own style. There are certain songs like Neal Diamonds Brother Love I like to do but wont unless I have about 3 gals doing doowop chorus with me. The reason you dont see much doowop at karaoke is because of the duet rules. That is one reason why I dont go to others shows much anymore. |
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| Author: | mckyj57 [ Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Doo Wop popular where you are? |
Flipper @ Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:13 pm wrote: This is the Doo Wop set I have:
Disc 1 / Track 12 Chapel Of Love Dixie Cups My wife does this one all the time.... |
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